Preston in the Domesday Book (1086)
The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Preston, entered under the hundred of Holderness [Middle Hundred] in Yorkshire. The survey assessed Preston at 10 carucates of taxable land.
At the time of the survey, Preston supported a recorded population of 5 villagers, 7 smallholders, 13 slaves, working 10 ploughs between them.
The survey records Preston’s value at 10 shillings in 1086. No pre-Conquest figure survives – not unusual in the North, where records were disrupted by the Harrying and by the patchy coverage of the survey.
Resources Recorded at Preston (1086)
- Mills: 3 mills (valued at 1.57 shillings)
- Meadow: 12 acres
- Woodland: 1 * 0.5 leagues
Other Settlements in Holderness [Middle Hundred]
Location
53.7571°N, -0.2024°W · Holderness [Middle Hundred] hundred, Yorkshire
View larger map on OpenStreetMap →Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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